Contamination Control Technician

KBR, Inc.•Greenbelt, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

You will be responsible for the implementation of defined processes to achieve the necessary cleanliness for mission success at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). These processes include detailed precision cleaning of flight hardware and critical ground support equipment, protective packaging to maintain cleanliness, and routine maintenance of controlled environments. Communication across disciplines is crucial to ensuring compatibility of these processes with the ongoing needs of the product designers and assemblers. You may assist in troubleshooting and solving contamination problems encountered when developing and building spacecraft and instruments. This is mainly on site at GSFC, with possible local and distant off-site work. Brief travel may be required.

Requirements

High School or higher education.
Significant and applicable experience as a Contamination Control Technician.
Mechanical technicians skilled in proper clean room operations, preferably for spacecraft, optical or aerospace hardware.
Working knowledge of industry standards and applicable ASTMs.
Approximately 10 years of experience with clean room operations, clean room facility cleaning, inspection and maintenance, electrostatic discharge (ESD) training and operational awareness, hardware cleaning and inspection methods, and troubleshooting.
A willingness to learn.
Ability to communicate across disciplines and technical knowledge levels.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Engineering, Math or Physics.
Attention to detail.
Experience with troubleshooting, materials, processes, coatings, planetary protection (biology), outgassing, offgassing, vacuum systems.
Knowledge of the space environment (vacuum, particulate and electromagnetic radiation, thermal, atomic oxygen).
Basic laboratory and solvent handling skills.
Experience and/or Education in lieu of these qualifications will be reviewed for applicability to meet these requirements.

Responsibilities

Implementation of defined processes to achieve necessary cleanliness for mission success.
Detailed precision cleaning of flight hardware and critical ground support equipment.
Protective packaging to maintain cleanliness.
Routine maintenance of controlled environments.
Assisting in troubleshooting and solving contamination problems encountered when developing and building spacecraft and instruments.
Communicating across disciplines to ensure compatibility of processes with product designers and assemblers.
Working both in a team environment and independently.
Accepting directions from more experienced CC technicians and contamination control engineers.
Collaborating with engineers in various disciplines, as well as technicians and management staff.